Spring You-Tube Tournament Winners

by Crazy Ivan

Once again we have reached the close of another contest and once again I find myself in the awkward position of trying to determine which of the entries achieve the highest honor.  There was actually a much smaller than expected field of entrants, but I have a theory about that.  I firmly believe that the quality of the first few submissions was high enough to scare a number of potential contestants away.

Before listing the winners, I should say that I was incredibly impressed by the quality of the videos that we did get.  There have been a number of You-Tube contests in the past (though this was the first one actually sponsored by the company) and a lot of really solid videos have arisen from them.  But I think this contest has really raised the bar.  Not only on tournament videos, but on Myachi You-Tube videos in general.

Now without further ado (since I'm by myself at HQ and it's kind of hoppin' in here today), I present you the top 3 finishers in the first ever official Myachi You-Tube Tournament.

 #3) Myachi Gold



To be honest, the third place winner was the real killer when it came time to judge these videos.  There was a really close race between three contenders on this one, but Gold narrowly edged out his nearest competitors with the video you see above.  And when I say narrowly, I mean narrowly.  On the 100 point scale I used to judge these videos, he came in 2 points ahead of 4th place and 4 points ahead of 5th.

A well deserved win, Gold takes 3rd by the slightest of margins.  3rd place is worth, of course, 1 5.0 Myachi of his choice (so PM me or email me, Gold) and we'll get that prize out to you in no time.

 #2) Mantis



Mantis was the final entry in the tournament and before his video dropped it looked like it would be a run away victory for our first place finisher.  Before Mantis' last second entry there was really very little competition for the first place finish.  But Mantis came out swinging in the manner we've gotten used to.

The videos were judged on 3 criteria; skill, creativity and video quality.  Mantis took a commanding lead in Skill, which accounted for half of the total score.  In virtually any contest we'd ever seen before, this video would have been plenty to take the grand prize.  However, he came in behind the grand prize winner enough in the creativity and quality categories that he wound up missing the top prize by less than 5 points.

 #1) Your Shining Star, CMC



I honestly don't think there was much doubt in anyone's mind who would take the top honor in this contest. Not only did CMC show off some incredible skill, but he put out one of the most original and entertaining Myachi videos ever created. If you watched with the audio switched off, you have to go back and watch it again to understand exactly why this video takes first place.

A very well deserved win, CMC has really raised the bar for every You-Tube tournament we do in the future. Just having awesome skills is no longer enough to compete. It helps to do something nobody has ever done before.

Congratulations to our winners and to all of the entrants. Like I said, it was really tough to narrow this contest down to the top 3 and at least 2 very deserving videos had to be left out of the winner's circle.

That being said, there is another video tournament coming soon so for those who narrowly missed winning a prize this time around, keep your skills polished and your camera ready. You will get another chance.